Long-time environmentalist Arnold Dix, who gained fame when he helped rescue 41 Indian workers trapped in a Himalayan tunnel, says the threat of climate change means rethinking everything.
His home in Melbourne’s Dandenong Ranges is powered by solar and batteries, he protested the damming of the Franklin River and even lays claim to being the first person in Australia to own a hybrid Toyota Prius.At university, he was involved in the anti-nuclear movement and did post-graduate research on the impact of uranium mining in the NT’s Kakadu National Park. He said he once campaigned against thorium-containing gas lantern mantles due to the unknown risk of radiation exposure.
“We’ve got a real, demonstrable, calculable, global risk right now to the world as we know it ... and we’re balancing that with an incredibly intellectual risk out hundreds of thousands of years, which we can well manage, which is hypothetical, like almost fanciful.”Dix studied science, engineering and, later, law. He boasts an array of job titles and has an impressive string of letters tacked on to the end of his name.
The Coalition wants small modular reactors such as this design by Westinghouse proposed for the United Kingdom.He describes the current debate in Australia – often pitched as a choice between keeping the lights on and having rivers full of three-eyed fish – as “silly”. Australia has also struggled to find suitable long-term storage of small quantities of low- and intermediate-level nuclear waste from nuclear medicine and the Lucas Heights reactor.
“We’re on a continent...which is the most ancient rock floating around up on the surface of the earth. It’s incredibly stable,” he said
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